San Francisco, CA

Salary
$190,000–$270,000from the description
Posted
Jul 6, 2026
Location
San Francisco, CA
Last confirmed open
Jul 21, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A senior-level role focused on designing, deploying, and maintaining large-scale, multi-vendor high-performance compute networks at an AI infrastructure company. Day-to-day work spans routing and switching, network security, automation pipeline development, and root-cause analysis of connectivity issues. The role suits an experienced data center network engineer with deep protocol knowledge and a background in network automation.

Senior level · 8+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time

Must have (12)
TCP/IPOSPFVXLANEVPNQoSPython or AnsibleWiresharktcpdumpnmapMellanoxAWS, GCP or AzureLinux
Nice to have (3)
RoCEInfiniBandDocker, Kubernetes or Slurm

“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.

Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.

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How this req sits in the market our data

Roughly 10 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (network and computer systems administrators). range 2–15

Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.

What gives you an edge
tcpdump5%nmap6%

Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.

What won't set you apart
Linux75%TCP/IP55%Python51%AWS50%

Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.

What the occupation pays Median $132,532 (middle half $103,068–$167,147). This posting is about at that midpoint.

Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.

Why we read it this way (6)

The role sits at the boundary between 15-1244 (Network/Systems Administration) and 15-1252 (Software Developers): the primary day-to-day work is designing and operating large-scale data center networks, which maps to 15-1244, but the automation pipeline development requirement (Python, Ansible) adds a meaningful software-engineering dimension. 15-1244 was chosen because network design, deployment, and operations are clearly the dominant function.

Location is not explicitly stated in the posting; Together AI is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, so the CBSA has been inferred accordingly. The posting does not specify remote eligibility.

AWS, GCP, and Azure are listed together as a single cloud-networking requirement; AWS is used as the primary name with GCP and Azure as alternatives.

Python and Ansible are listed as interchangeable options for network automation ('Python, Ansible, or other languages/tools'); Python is the primary name with Ansible as an alternative.

Docker, Kubernetes, and Slurm appear together under the 'Preferred' section as a single 'a plus' item; Docker is used as the primary name with Kubernetes and Slurm as alternatives.

The salary range ($190,000–$270,000) is stated as the US base range and is explicitly noted to vary by location and level.

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